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[country bunker]

well guys there are still some barn finds out there waiting to be discovered! i found a 67 fury 111 threw the grape vine of friends and snatched it up for the 8 3/4. its gonna go in the bluesmobile with a 3.23 suregrip. the car was bought by the infamous little old laddy, and she drove it till she passed away in 1984. no one really wanted it. but her niece inherited it.

they parked the car in thier garage in 84 and there its sat for 25 years. Well now there getting up in age and wanna clear out the garage, so enter me. picked it up for $250.

im gonna swap rears and get her running nd prolly keep her.

Has anyone swaped rears before? ive measured the rear and it will fit, i know ive gotta cut the driveshaft in the monaco. How hard is that? Ive never done it before. itll be my winter adventure along with other things.... any help and info would be appreciated.
thanks
-zac

heres some pics, pick the car up friday nd will have better pics then.




car is actually pretty clean and intact, just has 25 years of dirt and dust on her!





haha been sitting there so long the muffler rusted off and fell perfectly right in place under the car.

Soul Food Cafe - country bunker's Album: the fury

[Steam McQueen]

Very cool, Zac! Nice save on a great old Fury!!

country bunker said:

Has anyone swaped rears before? ive measured the rear and it will fit, i know ive gotta cut the driveshaft in the monaco. How hard is that? Ive never done it before. itll be my winter adventure along with other things.... any help and info would be appreciated.

Hmmm ... maybe the Ghost-Man has done something like that? I'm not sure. I'll bet that Huey has, haven't heard from him in awhile. I'll send out the 'Huey Signal' maybe he'll see it ...



:o

Cars in barns, eh! Have youse guys seen that website?
CarsinBarns.com

Even a Canadian version ...
carsinbarns

http://www.bluesbrotherscentral.com/forum2/public/style_emoticons/default/icon_cool.gif

Good luck on the swap, Zacmeister!

[country bunker]

HAHAHA i love the huey signal!

yes i have seen the carsinbarns site its pretty cool, spent hours and hours reading about how they found the cars. i thought that was more interesting then the actual car lol.

but i havnt seen the canadian version, some more reading material!

thank you steam!

[country bunker]

well got her home yesterday, what an adventure that was! passenger front wheel was stuck, and drivers rear was stuck. got the rear unstuck but not the front. Dragged her onto the trailer, drove it home, tied her to a tree and drove the trailer out from under it haha

now need to swap rears! but gotta get this one running first so i can move it around.

[Mr Mercer]

This would make a excellent police clone or better yet make it a taxi clone , nobody does that .

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[country bunker]

i was thinking of doing a police car clone to, i didnt think about a taxi though, i like it!

i really liked the way this one looks with the dog dishes on her.


i threw my caps on today and it really helped!



the familly...

[Mr Mercer]

With all this Hollywood business coming to Michigan , they look for this stuff for movies. I'm on some lists and had work with my Impala . That would be different to make it a cab , but as a period correct Detroit (67) police would be nice too . All white with a blue stripe down the middle and would be memorable as that when the city went to pieces . I used to have a 88 caprice that was a low mileage OPP police cruiser that was retired early because of damage , so I fixed it with front clip + doors from a green Detroit checker cab . Had a lot of looks with that car , part cab / part police . Probably get work with that car now , if I still had it .

[country bunker]

it would be cool to see her as a cab, like you said nobody does em. but i like the detroit cop car thing to.. i also like it the way it looks. idk its on the backburner

i do have ALOT of movies going on around me right now, theres one being flimed 5 miles down the road in howell at the new high school, and another one in brighton, and they just finished a shoot in dexter. itll be cool to see the movies and see the landscape and backgrounds...

hey guys im having a hard time reading the fender tag on this one, i can read the actual tag but its not making any sence to me, none of the codes mach anything i see..
heres what the tag reads-

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
__________2_____ 8
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
_____________1_______ 2
12345678 AX TRM PNL UBS
__________2 M1B DD1 D
PM41 41553 626 09634

can you guys decode this? if you can please let me know, im gonna search on the web a lil more, but nothings coming up like this...

thanks
-zac

sorry guys the forum wont let me put big spaces between the letters and numbers to put em in the right place but you can still make out where they go..

[Ghostbluesman]

Nice find, Zac!
I had to shorten the driveshaft on my 440 Dart and 8-3/4 combo way-back-when, but I took it to a machine shop so it could be welded straight and balanced...balance being the key word!
Rob

[country bunker]

well guys, i got under her today to jack it up, and start doing a lil body work and gues what i found?

the car has absolutly no subframe!! ahhh!!! i was so supprised at what i found, its all rust no metal what so ever. the torsion bar area is pretty gone, but has some metal around it, and seems to be pretty strong still. idk guys. it kills me cause the car is really solid everywhere else. and the front end doesnt sag at all. so im kinda lost. i could still drive her, but do i really want to?

and now i measured the rear again, and it looks like its an inch or so shorter then i thought! i cant win!

so what do you guys think? should i keep her, and get another subframe? or scrap/part out? The cars solid everywhere else.

[Mr Mercer]

You could find a 6'er then switch the drive train over . Saw one not long ago , clean with no options . If the rear end a inch narrower but still bolts in that's not to bad . You could make up the difference with spacers or wider wheels with more offset . They make cop wheels wider than stock .

[Ghostbluesman]

Find another one, Zac; trying to weld in a subframe could be an alignment nightmare, and for a 4 door car, it's not financially worth the trouble.
I pass one that's for sale at a salvage yard, every day I drive to work; it's been there for several months, with no takers...point being: there are still plenty of decent, full-body donors out there!
Rob

[country bunker]

good to hear from ya rob. But from what ive heard and the looks of it, it looks like it just bolts in? no? and i know there are plenty out there, but i just have a hard time junking em. lol sorry just to sentimental i guess....

how solid is the one you pass? ive got a buddy in florida i could have store it till i can grab it... He lives in middleburg. do you know what they want for it?

thanks again man, i appreciate it!
-zac

[Ghostbluesman]

Let me get some info on it, Zac, and I'll let you know!
Rob

[country bunker]

thank you sir!! I contaced wildcatmopars, they have one for $250. But idk how much id get raped on shipping? lol ill find out tommarrow.

it be nice to have another car though, use good and bad stuff to make one car...
thanks rob!

[country bunker]

alright they got back to me quiker then i thought...

they want $250 for the subframe, and its gonna be another $230 to ship it to my work (i have to get it at a loading dock).

they want $200 for the fenders (might just get the bondo treatment thier not that bad.. plus ive already put some bondo in the drivers side)

and $375 for the quarters.. (i deffinetly need the drivers side)

its kinda nice being able to contact a junkyard, and they actually reply "yes we have that" unlike the monaco i always get a no lol

alright i still dont know bout it lol, I threw the car on craigslist and got one guy who seemed very interested, but its only been a couple hours. I figure if i can make my money back on her, ill sell her as a complete car. if i dont see any interest by the time i get enough money to get the subframe, then the hell with it, ill keep her and try to save another big old c body..

I know there not worth that much, but im not in it for the money. I look at it as a dieing breed of car that doesnt get the attention they deserve. These were the family cars that ran the life of the loan, but they did thier job and then they were discarded, forgotten about.. lol damn isnt that pathetic... Its a damn car haha

granted at that point, im only $1100 into a pretty clean, and SOLID old mopar lol. add a paint job and its good to go! but have to see what happens.

thank you guys again,appreciate it
-zac

[Ghostbluesman]

Zac,
The car I found is a '68...I took some crappy little pics of it with my wife's camera, and I'll upload them asap, so you can make a call on it....
Rob

[country bunker]

thank you Rob!

[Ghostbluesman]

Zac,
Here's the crappy pics, including the phone number. In person, the car looks to be in good shape; I'm not sure about the price, though....



Rob

[country bunker]

Hey rob, i called that number twice, didnt get an answer. Ill try again.

But i crawled under the car again tonite to check some other things out, and found more rust on the rear valance and quarters (or should i say i found whats left of a valance and quarters in the rust haha), alot more then i thought was back there. This car is done, rippin the rear and whats good off her and sending her on her way, anyone know what scraps going for?